In the Northern Hemisphere in 2017 and 2018 brought several destructive hurricanes to the shores of North America, the Caribbean, and throughout the Pacific rim. Such extreme weather events are predicted to get more common and more severe with increasing climate change.
Several participating classes in the ISCFC were or are in the path of these storms and we hope for the best for them, their families and communities.
We would love to hear from students affected directly and indirectly by extreme weather events, and also any students who have been following the news this summer.
What are your thoughts about the connection between climate change and extreme weather events? Has this hurricane season increased your concern about climate change or not? Do you think that US citizens and residents (and others in the region) will take climate change more seriously now?
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Extreme Weather Events in the USA
Extreme weather events have been increasing due to climate change. There has been a large increase in droughts, wildfires, heatwaves, hurricanes, flooding, snowstorms, hail, and much more over the past 20 years. In places like California, we see severe droughts and fires caused by warmer weather evaporating more water and drying up the area. In Texas, Louisiana, Florida, and other places there have been devastating hurricanes and floods. More water is in the atmosphere because the warmer weather evaporates it, which causes these storms to be far worse than they have ever been. Some hurricanes have created hundreds of billions of dollars in damage. The extra moisture in the air also results in harsher snowstorms, when it gets below freezing, there can be huge amounts of snowfall. It is very important that we take action because these extreme weather events will continue to get worse, in turn destroying many homes and costing the USA billions.
https://www.c2es.org/content/extreme-we … te-change/
https://www.edf.org/climate/climate-cha … me-weather